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19 December 2012

2012 Greek Indoor Rowing Championship - My road to sub 3 minutes race time

2012          

Video: Mens 30-39 2012 Greek IRC
(Me with white t-shirt, next to me standing my coach, Makis, with red jersey)



If there was just one word I would be allowed to pick up to describe the 2012 Greek indoor rowing national event that would be *exhaustion*. And this description doesn't only apply for the race day, but for the whole training season leading to this event. Below, I expose the training stages that allowed me to break the 3 minutes race time. Hope my story below will motivate all those athletes, new to indoor rowing, expand their ambitions.

Preparation
Indoor rowing requires maximum effort to reach a top level performance. The effort required to achieve even the tiniest improvement is significant. When you watch rowing live on the TV you might have noticed that the whole race lasts only a couple of minutes (less than 7 min for a 2000m race and 3 min for a 1000m race). Believe me, for those athletes who target a medal position, racing those few minutes feels endless until the moment they cross the finish line. Both in physical and mental terms.


19 August 2012

My indoor rowing gym - a quick presentation!




Demonstrating a 1000m indoor rowing training session. Pace 1:45/500m, 28s/m.

I'm 1.93m tall, 102 kg, 34 YO. I am into indoor rowing for about 3 years now. On the water rowing for about 3 months.

Personal best times:
- 500m: 1:22.3 (training - March 2012)
- 1000m: 3:00.4 (2011 Greek Indoor Rowing Championship, 30-39)
- 2000m: 6:21.1 (2012 BIRC and Euro Open IRC, 30-34 HWT)

Indoor Rower used: Model E with PM4 monitor.
Equipment: Courtesy of AASports, Greece ( http://www.aasport.gr/main/ )
(background music from www.di.fm )

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